Lavender & Coconut Scrub

Lavender & Coconut Scrub

Are you wanting to get rid of flaky, dry skin before your Spring Break trip?  I wish I was headed to the beach, but we’re staying home this year.  Instead my view of water will be melted snow formed into huge puddles at the end of my driveway.  I still enjoy a nice body scrub though that helps remove dead skin and leaves you feeling soft and refreshed.  I had coconut oil left from another project, which I wrote about here and wanted to make a scrub for a girls getaway weekend.   I searched for homemade scrubs on pinterest and found this one from Perfectly Flawed Woman.  I made a few tiny adjustments to the original recipe.

Lavender & Coconut Oil Scrub

• 1 cup raw turbinado sugar
• 1/3 cup sea salt
• 1/2 cup organic coconut oil
• 2 tbsp almond oil (I found this at Target in the oil section)
• 1/2 tbsp Vitamin E oil (you can buy this at the drug store)
• 5-7 drops of lavender essential oil  ( Young Living sells quality oils which is what I currently use. You can find out more about them HERE.)

I mixed all of the ingredients in a large bowl.  This recipe fills roughly one 8 0z. jar.  I found myself adding extra sugar to the mixture so it wasn’t as oily.  I also melted the coconut oil in the microwave before combining it with the other ingredients.

I found the jars at Target and used black scrapbook paper to cover the lids.  Then I used my new Martha Stewart labels which I talked about here  to write the name of the scrub.  If I had my friend Julie’s creative handwriting skills, it would look much cuter and professional.  I then tied some raffia ribbon I had around the jar.  The whole project took about an hour to fill 8 jars.